xfce4-compose-mail is a perl script that pulls in a giant pile of perl deps on fedora
Submitted by seth vidal
Assigned to Sean Davis @bluesabre
Description
Hi, I have no objection to perl itself - but I don't love pulling in a bunch of package deps for a single script which handles mailtos.
When I was looking at the xfce pkg deps and I noticed that exo pulls in perl I went looking for why and came up with the exo-compose-mail-1 script causing it all.
Since many modern linux distros use python for system tools (fedora, ubuntu, debian, centos, rhel, etc, etc, etc) I rewrote the script in python.
I've only tested it with claws-mail and a little bit with thunderbird but if there is a test suite that can be run against it I'd be happy to try that out.
the script is here
http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/mailtoparse.py
If the exo maintainers would like to use it (or any parts of it) to replace the perl script I am happy to contribute it.
If not or if you have other plans for the exo-compose-mail-1 script, then that's fine too. :)
I was just trying to minimize dependencies on my system. :)
Version: 0.12.10